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ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers seemed to have everything lined up perfectly going into the postseason, with their two aces ready to go at home for the start of the AL Division Series.Instead, the AL West champions are headed to Toronto facing the possibility of getting swept in the best-of-five matchup after Cole Hamels and Yu Darvish both struggled.Weve got a good team. We all believe in each other, All-Star center fielder Ian Desmond said. Just keep on fighting.Darvish allowed four homers, three in the same inning, and the Rangers lost 5-3 on a dreary, misty Friday afternoon in Texas.That came a day after All-Star lefty Hamels, the MVP of the World Series and NLCS for Philadelphia in 2008, allowed seven runs in 3 1/3 innings in his worst-ever postseason start in a series-opening 10-1 romp by the wild-card Blue Jays.But the Rangers also remember what happened last October, when Toronto lost the first two games of the ALDS at home before rallying to win the series.Why cant we do it this year, too? You never know until the last out, shortstop Elvis Andrus said. We still believe that we can win this series.Game 3 is Sunday night.Were up against it. Weve got to win three in a row, second-year Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. Weve got to start with one.Kevin Pillar, Ezequiel Carrera and Edwin Encarnacion, who ended the AL wild-card game with a three-run homer in the 11th inning, hit solo homers in a five-batter span in the fifth to go up 5-0. Troy Tulowitzkis two-run drive in the second put 20-game winner J.A. Happ and the Blue Jays ahead to stay.I was struggling with the strike zone and then was getting behind in the count and they were looking for the fastballs, Darvish said through his interpreter. And when I left it on the plate, they got it.It was only Darvishs second postseason appearance in his five seasons with the Rangers after coming from Japan. The right-hander lost the 2012 AL wild-card game to Baltimore, and missed all of last season after Tommy John surgery.Darvish had as many strikeouts (four) in his five innings as homers allowed, becoming the first pitcher in the postseason to allow four homers in a game since Minnesotas Rick Reed against Oakland in Game 3 of the 2002 ALDS. He started upward in disbelief after the balls landed in the seats.Texas outhit the Blue Jays 13-6 and had multiple runners on base against Happ in each of the first four innings. The only time they scored off the lefty was on Ian Desmonds RBI single in the fourth.The Rangers have lost five straight ALDS games to Toronto since winning the first two games in Toronto last October. Texas dropped to 1-11 in ALDS games in its home ballpark.Texas scored twice in the eighth, including Carlos Gomezs single that struck Francisco Liriano near the back of the head. The pitcher walked off the mound, and an ambulance was waiting after the game to take him to the hospital for what Gibbons referred to as some further tests.The ball off Gomezs bat was measured at 102 mph, and Liriano turned away just in time to avoid being hit in the face.Its tough to see that, but its part of the game, Gomez said. Just wait for the good news that hes OK.Roberto Osuna, the 21-year-old closer, then came on to get the final five outs, the first when Desmond greeted him with an RBI grounder. Adrian Beltre had a leadoff double in the ninth, but got stranded there.OUT AT HOMEDesmond had a leadoff double in the seventh, but later thrown later was thrown out at the plate when third baseman Josh Donaldson fielded a grounder and threw home. The out call stood after a replay challenge by the Rangers.The fact that were talking about that is kind of what the issue is. ... That shouldnt have been a make-or-break, Desmond said. Obviously, Ive got to score. It was a tough play.COOL DOWNAt first pitch, it was overcast with a temperature of 67 degrees, but the game started on time after rain fell overnight and in the early-morning hours at Globe Life Park. 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On August 6-7 in Hollywood, California, eight elite North American and European Rocket League teams will go head-to-head in the Rocket League Championship Series live finals for a $55,000 prize pool. Going into an offline final on North American soil, you have to consider the home-team advantage for the North American seeds, especially No. 1 seed Kings of Urban.Kings captain Jayson Fireburner Nunez says his teams play will benefit from having a live audience. When you have a North American LAN, the crowd will be there to hype us up and get us going.Teammate Jacob Jacob McDowell echoes the sentiment. We feed on the hype. Were an emotional team and the hype will build us up.Heading into the finals, Fireburner exudes confidence, saying the team has prepared more than ever for this moment. We are a team that works together very well. We will have the playmaker in Jacob flying high, while I will set him and [teammate Kais SadJunior Zehri] up.The story of Kings had been one of almost for a very long time. From its inception in late August of 2015, the Kings lurked in the shadow of a team named Cosmic Aftershock, which was seen as the team to beat. That is, until relatively recently.Reaching for the starsWhen Kings of Urban first formed, Fireburner sought to find the three best players in North America who were not on Cosmic, which was then a dominant force in the scene. The original roster included Fireburner, Cody Gambit Dover and Kyle Kyle Masc Mascitelli. This new team competed in small weekly ESL tournaments and started pressuring Cosmic, nearly taking a game here and there.Kings sought to improve its roster and decided to swap Masc for Jacob, a high-flying playmaker. The new Kings of Urban showed its very real potential at Major League Gaming Pro League Season 1 in the quarterfinals against Cosmic, where the unthinkable happened: Kings of Urban eliminated Cosmic and moved on to the semifinals.After MLG, Kings moved swiftly to pick up a new third as a replacement for departing ace Gambit. The squad decided on Caleb Moses Nichols, a very solid up-and-coming player who looked to be a potential superstar (see ESPN Esports feature on Moses). Within a month of picking up Moses, Kings of Urban began its North American reign, finally eclipsing the now-sponsored iBUYPOWER Cosmic to hold the top spot in North America for more than a month. During that time Kings looked like a dominant performer in weekly and monthly events, but the stage where it really shined was the Rocket League Central Pro League (RLCPL).ddddddddddddThe RLCPL was the first large-scale international tournament featuring all of the best teams from North America and Europe competing against each other. This roster from Kings of Urban continued to impress, finishing the regular season with a massive 22-8 record at the top of North America. Kings moved into the playoff bracket as the top seed from North America; unfortunately, losses in the semifinals eliminated it from the Pro League and set its ranking back into the No. 2 spot.Breaking throughWhen the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) Season 1 Qualifier 1 came around, Kings brought in SadJunior as a replacement for Moses in a surprise move that clearly stated its intent to zero in on first place. However, Kings of Urban finished in a consistent second place behind iBUYPOWER, both in regular league play and in the playoff bracket at the end. This was in no way a poor showing, as Kings set itself up to be a top contender for a spot at the LAN finals.In Qualifier 2 for RLCS Season 1, Kings of Urban finished a surprisingly low fourth seed in regular league play, but then showed why it made that roster change. In its first match, it took down the upstart Lucky Bounce, who had emerged from the group stage in first place. Moving into the finals, it faced off against former teammate Moses new team, Exodus. In an incredibly close, acrobatic series, the Kings of Urban took down Exodus 4-3 to secure the top seed in North America in what all three members called their proudest moment. Now the team is on its way to the Live Finals, where it will have the chance to prove it is the best in the world.Fireburner says the team had had faith in itself from the beginning of RLCS: We always believed we could finish first if we put the time in scrims and fixed our small issues that we had at the start of Qualifier 2. We still believe we havent reached our full potential and were excited for the future.In Rocket Leagues short history, Kings of Urban are one of the longest-standing teams in North America and have consistently had one of the best rosters in the world. Through many roster changes, it has hovered between being the best and second-best team in North America, and now it comes into Rocket Leagues biggest tournament yet as the top seed from the region.